Attack on the SS Baton Rouge Victory

Attack on the SS Baton Rouge Victory
	Part of the Vietnam War
Date	August 23, 1966
Location	Long Tau River, 22 miles southeast of Saigon, South Vietnam
Result	Viet Cong victory
Belligerents
Viet Cong	United States
Commanders and leaders
Ho Xuan Canh	Unknown
Units involved
10th Special Operations Group	SS Baton Rouge Victory
Strength
20 commandos	1 freighter
Casualties and losses
None	1 freighter sunk; 7 U.S. civilian employees killed.

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On August 23, 1966, Viet Cong commandos attacked and sank the Victory ship SS Baton Rouge Victory using two 1,000-ton mines^{[dubious – discuss]} when it was proceeding through the Long Tau River, about 22 miles southeast of Saigon, killing seven American civilian sailors on board. This was the first case a U.S. vessel was sunk by the enemy in the Saigon ship channel.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Stephen Schwartz, "Remembering Vietnam's Forgotten Seamen", San Francisco Chronicle, October 20, 1997
^ Culver, John A., CAPT USNR "A time for Victories" United States Naval Institute Proceedings February 1977 pp. 50-56

[1] Stephen Schwartz, "Remembering Vietnam's Forgotten Seamen", San Francisco Chronicle, October 20, 1997

[2] Culver, John A., CAPT USNR "A time for Victories" United States Naval Institute Proceedings February 1977 pp. 50-56

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